No, not human rights. The British "Human Rights Act" and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) on which it is based. Robin Harris explains why in the Telegraph (thanks to Ali Dashti):
International human rights law and the institutions devised to enforce it are supposed to reduce the power of nation states.But the only countries likely to co-operate are already liberal democracies. And the threat posed to the political and military leaders of those democracies by such institutions may well paralyse international interventions to deter tyrants.
That is why America is so opposed to the new International Criminal Court.
But if the exaltation of human rights has done little good to the outside world, it will continue to do tangible harm to Britain, where freedom is strongly entrenched.
Because of the ECHR - with or without the Human Rights Act - it is now impossible to expel foreigners who pose a threat to the country's security.
Because of the ECHR - and the attitudes that adherence to it has encouraged within Britain's judiciary - it is proving immensely difficult to uphold in the courts the measures required to maintain immigration control.
In all areas of public life where an ethos of discipline and the use of discretionary force are required - from the Armed Forces to the police, and from schools to jails - the possible recourse to "human rights" risks imposing paralysis and introducing disorder.
This is the umbrella under which Al-Muhajiroun continues to operate.
It has crossed my mind that the reason why these groups are allowed to remain in Europe is because it may well be easier to control and to monitor them while they are out in the open. That way, the secret services may have their job made easier by the Jihadists' own lack of discretion.
On the other hand, allowing subversive behaviour to roam free is a threat to international order and it is largely why modern Britain is a haven for Islamic terrorists.
What scares me is that I don't think the secret services are doing their job properly... People like Omar Bakri Mohammed could always have unfortunate "accidents", or at least they could forge videotapes to compromise his credibility. There are ways to do this sort of thing, but I think there is no political will to get them done and that is what worries me. Given yesterday's tragic events (who will likely be blamed on some sort of Zionist international conspiracy to make
Muslims look "bad") we must do everything we can to prevent such a thing from ever happening again.
Just take a look at these pictures:
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How can anyone tolerate this much barbarism?
One is heartened to see there are a few brave Journalists willing to speak the truth.
Never before in world History have the true aims of islamic jihad been more apparent.
if anyone could have excused the leftists in the past owing to Ilsmism's hidden and stealth nature, no such excuses can be tolerated from the dangerous leftists today.
Those very leftists who have always claimed that jihad violence was the result of "Western oppression" can not with any modicum of honesty now follow this doctrine of the victim.
France the great appeaser should now have discovered this as a result of the activities mounted against it in the matter of the headscarf ban.
Indeed the kinappings and massive muslim and left wing media inspired demos provide the clearest proofs of the lunacies of this type of thinking.
france is being targeted simply because of its secularism.
As more and more muslims enter france so more and more demands are made to achieve the ultimate aim of shariah law in france and the subjugation of the french people.
Nut like the rest of europe france buries its head in the sand and indulges in rabid anti americanism in the vain hope of pacifying the muslim invadors.
Every act of mass murder by the Islamofascists is seen by the europeasns and their sickening press as further proof of the "Evils of the western world"
In the coverages of the undpeakaple russian outrages the word muslim was not uttered once over the TV cahnnels!
Indeed quick to blame the evil russians so as to avoid any blame on the muslim killers, they (in the uk skynews and bbc coverages)pounded the soviets with accusations of ineptitude.
Is it any wonder that the jihadists are every time enbolded into new outrages by the reactions of the shamefull euro-dhimmies ?
Every time the BBC or guardian apologists do this islamic Jihad scores a double victory and our own media who betray us daily must take the blame for their outrageous distortions.
Alex
these pictures are so heart wrenching , that i would understand if the poor parents took revenge and slaughtered some of the local muslims. i might have done the same myself if i had seen the bodies of my murdered children in this way.
Laws are in place, and if someone cannot be expelled from nations that they've been deemed a threat to, there is another option, and it comes in the form of lead or teflon....Savvy?